I'm swapping out a drive in one of my machines. Has anyone used Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to backup Lion yet? I know the recovery partition doesn't show up in Disk Utility. I was just wondering if you do a clone with CCC or SuperDuper, does it include the hidden recovery partition in the clone?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 13" - Mid 2009
Yes, most interesting observation by Colin Robinson
This would sure make a case for creating that Bootable DVD / Flash drive of the installer !
Question becomes does the installer partition stay in place if you restore the HD volume. Seems like it would?
SuperDuper doesn't acording to their Forum:
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/showthread.php?p=30750#post30750
We don't copy the recovery partition. It's not exposed to us. We only copy one volume at a time - the one you pick. Others don't come along with it. There must be a way to recreate the recovery partition... I just don't know what it is (and at present I don't have the spare cycles to investigate due to the support load due to Lion's release)... |
Regards,
Colin R.
Thanks guys... I guess that's just something to be aware of (at least for now). If you're restoring to the same drive, the recovery partition will be fine since it is never touched. If you're replacing your drive, you won't have the recovery partition as it won't be included in the clone. I guess it's not super important (especially since we've never had it before Lion anyway)... but it is nice to know it's there. In the thread that Colin had pointed to, the next best solution seems to be to do a clean install on the new drive (which will create the recovery partition) and then restore your clone which will wipe the clean install and replace it with your clone. That's not a horrible option... ya just have to spend the extra time doing the fresh install first. I guess CCC or SD will eventually be updated to be able to include the recovery partition in the clone.
Good point JoeyR
There are some interesting ideas being tossed around:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110717190509986
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Recovery Partition and Carbon Copy Cloner / SuperDuper
